I have an external firewire drive that appears to be mounted at /media/sda1. However, I can not access it. Here is how I got to this point.
1. Earlier today, I was running R5E50. All of my DVD ISO's are on this external firewire drive. This drive was orginally mounted by editing fstab and mounting it to a directory in my home directory. In this way, I was able to use symbolic links to have my movies show up in /myth/video.
2. This drive worked fine. In fact, just prior to my upgrade to R5F27 today, I stored some backup files there. No issues at all.
3. I upgraded from R5E50 to R5F27, per tjc's hints/tips post. I noticed the following line
Quote:
4.3) Switching to udev also means that removable storage devices (CDs, USB drives, ...) should be pretty much "plug and play" with no extra setup required, however, the default mount points may have changed as a result. For example my USB thumbdrive is now automatically mounted on "/media/usbdisk" when it is plugged in. A second drive gets mounted as /media/usbdisk-1 and so on.
4. My upgrade appears to have gone very well. The firewire drive was no longer accessible through the old symbolic links, but I expected this due to tjc's comments above.
5. I tried to confirm my firewire drive was recognized by Myth. I believe the sda1 device shown below confirms the firewire drive is present (there are no other external drives attached)
Code:
root@mythtv:/# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 609 4891761 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 610 706 779152+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3 707 60801 482713087+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 60801 488384001 83 Linux
root@mythtv:/#
6. However, it did not show up with the df command
Code:
root@mythtv:/# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 4828768 2036180 2548000 45% /
/dev/hda3 482666728 146301344 336365384 31% /myth
tmpfs 256444 4 256440 1% /dev/shm
7. I checked the fstab file
Code:
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda3 /myth ext3 defaults,auto 0 2
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom auto defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda2 none swap defaults 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
8. From the fstab, I assumed I could see the drives contents by going into /media/sda1. However, this directory is empty.
Question: How can I see inside this drive? I have no reason to think the drive itself has a problem. I am guessing the problem is my own linux ignorance.
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